Tim Muldoon

Philosopher, theologian @BostonCollege. New project: AI, consciousness, formative education for community and social progress. #Lonergan. #rowing.

[Tim Muldoon @timothypmuldoon]

Students don't know how to read. Let's coach them.
https://t.co/Bw3xyGL18Z

[Tim Muldoon @timothypmuldoon]

My lecture on Monday evening @BostonCollege, on @Pontifex's newest apostolic exhortation invoking the newest (38th) Doctor of the Church, John Henry Newman. https://t.co/mt0uUhtcGm

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

These brown bear cubs are making their own fun on a driftwood stump in Hallo Bay, Alaska.

[Tim Muldoon @timothypmuldoon]

@MTMehan Too obvious to suggest Increase Mather (former president of Harvard) and his son Cotton Mather (minister at Old North Meeting House in Boston)?

[Tim Muldoon @timothypmuldoon]

@timothypomalley Praying for Shaun, and for you and the rest of your family!

[Tim Muldoon @timothypmuldoon]

@Cubs Even better: row there from @3RiversRowing, where I coached for several years during grad school!

[Tim Muldoon @timothypmuldoon]

@drfeifei has helped me articulate with greater differentiation the uniqueness of human consciousness. Highly recommend her book The Worlds I See.

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Fei-Fei Li (@drfeifei) on limitations of LLMs.

"There's no language out there in nature. You don't go out in nature and there's words written in the sky for you.. There is a 3D world that follows laws of physics."

Language is purely generated signal.

[Tim Muldoon @timothypmuldoon]

Amelia F. Barnum ‘28: “Banning screens is an answer to students’ academic neglect: It would increase classroom engagement as well as create a culture where the benefits of in-person learning can be fully realized.” https://t.co/M7TizfSPgz

[Tim Muldoon @timothypmuldoon]

"neither education in general nor any specific degree should derive its value from the narrowest vision of professional usefulness." @compactmag https://t.co/i6c9L4ZUia

[Tim Muldoon @timothypmuldoon]

Veysey's book is important, but I'd argue that Clark Kerr's The Uses of the University is more significant for explaining where we are today, and Newman's Idea of a University is more important for thinking about where we must go. https://t.co/m9UcsRGRNs

[Tim Muldoon @timothypmuldoon]

"More than half of students (55 percent) who have used AI for coursework in the last year say it’s had mixed effects on their learning and critical thinking skills: It helps sometimes but can also make them think less deeply."
https://t.co/htKmdNabo2

[Tim Muldoon @timothypmuldoon]

@_akpiper Fully agree!

[Tim Muldoon @timothypmuldoon]

College grads will need to distinguish their capabilities from those of machines. Discernment. Raising questions. Generating creative insights. Working cooperatively. In a word, Humanities.

[Andrew Piper @_akpiper]

Not to get all just do it, but this suggests that college grads are going to need serious improvement in their skills to compete. Their exit level performance needs to boost so that they are on par with low-level employees + AI.

[Tim Muldoon @timothypmuldoon]

A sobering reminder that young people need the guidance of wise mentors as they navigate AI and the wider digital landscape. https://t.co/rBN0nnyfW1

[Tim Muldoon @timothypmuldoon]

“I think part of going to college is building [your] critical thinking.... It’s less about the development of skills and it really is [about] how do you become a critical thinker?” https://t.co/m41vLMnDAJ

[Tim Muldoon @timothypmuldoon]

What I will be working on with students in the new semester. https://t.co/iIoyBllRLN

[Tim Muldoon @timothypmuldoon]

@miserabiliter Glad I'm not the only one who believes that written and oral languages are fundamentally different.

[Oxford Academic @OUPAcademic]

Ready to publish? @PSQuarterly is calling for papers on AI’s impact on politics and policy. Open to early-career scholars. Rolling deadline until September 10, 2025.

Read more: https://t.co/BGdI1hrv78

#Politics #AIinPolitics

[Robert Pondiscio @rpondiscio]

"Has the solution been this easy the whole time?"

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

Conscientiousness will separate those who just survive from those who thrive in the 21st century. We can each decide which half of that divide we fall on — but ironically that will take some dedication.

Here’s my article in full: https://t.co/3rivXmPwiM